Tracing Your Canal Ancestors: A Guide For Family Historians - Softcover

Wilkes, Sue

9781848842380: Tracing Your Canal Ancestors: A Guide For Family Historians

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848842384 ISBN 13: 9781848842380

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2012

Britain's industrial revolution depended on canals for the cheap movement of materials and goods - until the coming of the railways. Canal companies struggled to compete and went into a long decline, but much of the canal network is still with us today, and interest in the history and heritage of canals - and those who worked on them - is strong. That is why Sue Wilkes's well researched and highly readable handbook on the subject is so valuable. She concentrates on the people who lived and worked on the waterways - the canal boatmen, their families and their way of life - and those who depended on the canal trade for a living - the lock-keepers, toll collectors, and canal company clerks. She provides a thorough, practical guide to the sources - the archives, books, websites, societies - available for researchers if they are studying our inland waterways, or trying to find out about an ancestor who worked on the canals or was connected with them. Her book is essential reading for anyone interested in this aspect of the industrial past.

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About the Author:

Sue Wilkes was born in Lancashire; she has lived in Cheshire since 1981. Sue read Physics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is a member of the Society of Authors. Her first book 'Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives' (History Press, 2008), recreates everyday life for working families in Victorian Lancashire during the Industrial Revolution. 'Regency Cheshire' (Robert Hale, 2009) tells the story of county life during the age of Beau Brummell, Walter Scott and Jane Austen. Her third book 'The Children History Forgot' (Robert Hale, 2011) explores children and young people's working lives during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. Her most recent books, 'Tracing Your Canal Ancestors' (Pen & Sword, 2011) and 'Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors'(Pen & Sword, 2012) are guides for family historians. Sue's new guide 'Tracing Your Ancestors' Childhood' will be published by Pen & Sword in September 2013. Sue writes for adults and children, and contributes regularly to magazines in the UK and USA. Her specialities are social and industrial history, literary history, and family history. Sue is also a creative writing tutor specialising in non-fiction. She is married, with two children. Sue is a Jane Austen fan. She loves country walks and exploring Britain's history. She is currently writing a 'Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England' for Pen & Sword. Read Sue's blogs at http: //suewilkes.blogspot.com/ and http: //visitjaneaustensengland.blogspot.co.uk/ Sue Wilkes is an established expert on our industrial heritage and a well-known family historian. She has contributed many articles to history and family history magazines, including BBC Who Do You Think You Are?, BBC History, Ancestors, Discover My Past, Family History Monthly, Your Family History and Jane Austen's Regency World. She has written five books: \'Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors\', (Pen & Sword, 2012), 'Tracing Your Canal Ancestors' (Pen & Sword, 2011), 'The Children History Forgot' (Robert Hale, 2011), 'Regency Cheshire' (Robert Hale, 2009) and 'Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives' (History Press, 2008), which includes a chapter on canal boat families). Sue read Physics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. A member of the Society of Authors, she is a creative writing tutor specialising in non-fiction. \r\n\r\nSue is currently working on \'Tracing Your Ancestors\' Childhood\' for Pen & Sword. http: //suewilkes.blogspot.com/

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